You are standing shoulder to shoulder with the war fighters of the War Department. Allow me for a moment to speak plainly about the threats to that freedom. We find ourselves in a world of growing threats. A world the comfortable elites in Washington refused to acknowledge for far too long. For decades, a bipartisan consensus sold this country a dangerous fantasy. They told us that history was over, that the rise of peer competitors was a relic of the past, … (09:09–09:19)
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Asserts that Washington elites have ignored growing global threats.
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